Re: [PHP] $_SESSION NOT WORKING

Try adding session_start() at top of the script

Balpo wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I'm having a problem moving my code to a linux computer.
> I won't post the whole code here, but an accurate example that 
> reproduces exactly the error.
>
> //************************ 1.php
> <?php
> session_register('tree');
> $_SESSION['tree'] = "This is tree number one";
> header("Location: 2.php");
> ?>
>
> //************************ 2.php
> <?php
> print_r($_SESSION, false);
> ?>
>
>
> //************************ php.ini (incomplete)
> session.save_handler = files
> session.save_path = /tmp/php/sessions/ o ;C:/temp/php/sessions for 
> Windows
> session.use_cookies = 1
> session.name = cito
> session.auto_start = 1
> session.cookie_lifetime = 0
> session.cookie_path = /
> session.cookie_domain =
> session.cookie_httponly =
> session.serialize_handler = php
> session.gc_probability = 1
> session.gc_divisor     = 100
> session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
> session.bug_compat_42 = 0
> session.bug_compat_warn = 0
> session.referer_check =
> session.entropy_length = 0
> session.entropy_file =
> session.cache_limiter = nocache
> session.cache_expire = 180
> session.use_trans_sid = 0
> session.hash_function = 0
> session.hash_bits_per_character = 4
> url_rewriter.tags = 
> "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="
>
> The web server is Apache 2.2 with php 5.24 for both, Linux & Windows.
> In Linux the Apache server is run by the 'apache' user, which has 
> reading, writing and execution grants on /tmp/php/sessions/
>
> The output for 2.php is:
>      Array ( [tree] => This is tree number one )
> is what I get on Windows, but on Linux I get:
>         Notice: Undefined variable: _SESSION in /var/www/html/2.php on 
> line 2
>
> I don't know what the error is, but something evident is that on Linux 
> session.auto_start = 1 is NOT working properly.
> On Windows it is not necessary to explicitly start the session to use 
> the $_SESSION, so no need to session_start().
> If on Linux I add session_start() at the top of each script, the 
> script executes well.
>
> I want to know why session.auto_start does not work on Linux.
>
> If you require the whole php.ini, I'll send it gladly



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